Improvement in trucks for carrying bricks



'B. A. SMITH.

. Trucks for Carrying Bricks. 143,853.

Patented Ot- 21,1873.

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ROBERT A. SMITH, or NEWBURYPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT m TRUCKS FOR CARRYING BRlCKS.-

Specification formin g part of Letters Patent No. 143,853, dated October 21, 1873; application filed June 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT A. SMITH, of Newburyport, of the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Carriages for improved brick-transporters or railway-can riages, such being for the purpose of removing brick from a moldingmachine to a brick-yard or drying-ground, or from the latter to a kiln.

This transporter is a long railway'carriage, L, having four wheels, 70, arranged as shown, and also having upon its platform a series of transverse bearers, l l I. It also has two folding planks or shelves,m m, provided with endguards o 0, such planks at their ends being connected to the carriage by links or bars 1; p pivoted to the carriage and to them, and arranged, as shown, so as to enable the planks to be moved from off the bearers down into vertical positions against opposite edges of the platform 00, or from such last-mentioned positions back to horizontal positions upon the bearers. An attendant, having the transporter in close proximity with the moldingmachine, transfers the bricks, as they are molded, to the platform of 'the transporter. After having moved it with the bricks, he next should turn the planks or shelves upward and over upon the bearers, so as to cover the bricks previously laid in the platform. Next, he should place molded bricks upon the planks or shelves, and, after having covered them with the bricks, he should move the transporter 011 the railroad-track to the place to which thebricks are to be carried.

I claim- The transporter L, provided with the transverse bearers l and the folding plank or shelves m, combined with carriage-platform as, substantially in manner and to operate as described.

ROBERT A. SMITH.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. Snow. 

